VNC vs RDP (was Re: vnc)

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:15 -0500, Preston Hagar wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:10 PM, A. Jorge Garcia <calcpage at aol.com> wrote:
> > Is vnc in Ubuntu equivalent to rdp in windows?  I was told I could
> > control my desktop via an iPad with either protocol.
> >
> > TIA,
> > A. Jorge Garcia
> > http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
> > http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
> >
> > Teacher & Professor
> > Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
> > Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College
> >
> 
> I changed the subject since that question should be in a new thread.
> Anyway, VNC and RDP have the same general goals, to show a desktop of
> one machine on another across a network.  That said, I know there are
> RDP clients in Linux and I think there are RDP servers for Linux and I
> know there are VNC servers and clients for Windows, so they aren't
> specifically tied to one OS.  I like tightVNC for windows, and
> grdesktop as a nice, graphical RDP client for Linux.

tightvnc is what is recommended for the Windoze and Mac users of the
Wonderland project. Question: If a Windows users puts his world on the
net and he uses tightvnc to allow others to use his MSOffice, aren't
they supposed to have a stack of network licenses to do that?